← Grace OgotThe Promised Landby Grace OgotNovel about a young Kenyan woman's choice between traditional arranged marriage and personal freedomFind on Amazon↗About the authorGrace OgotKenyan fiction writer whose stories drew on Luo legend, oral tradition, and Kenyan history to create some of the earliest major works of East African fiction in English. The Promised Land was the first novel published by a Kenyan woman.More by Grace OgotLand Without ThunderShort story collection depicting Kenyan rural life, tradition, and social change→The Other WomanNovella exploring marriage, fidelity, and ambition in urban Kenya→The GraduateNovel about a young woman's education and romantic coming-of-age in Kenya→